Kate Holden

Man, Edinburgh people's knitwear game is next level. I'm jealous! Where are you Scots getting all these gorgeous jumpers!?

On our way up to Edinburgh for TAGS Fest! I've heard good things about the event! 😄

Chibi Kpop Demon Hunters stickers depicting Mira sat on a golden jet plane, Rumi riding the tiger with the Crow, Zoey on a skateboard with notepads and Jinu running saying "HEHEHE"

Kpop Demon Hunters stickers all ready to go for upcoming events! Gonna be gonna be Holden!

A printout of a panel from Errant with banding gradually being purged from the yellow.

Side note, thank you, Rekki, for fixing the issue with the yellow print head. She was here for another Demon hunting sword girl 😄

Chibi style stickers on a cricut mat of Rumi from KPop Demon Hunters riding on the tiger.

It's convention season, so I needed to make a new set of stickers and... well, I just really wanted to draw these characters. I love KPDH! 😆

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Well, I owe it to the readers to try my best to express a message of hope and unity without just going, "we should forgive all the baddies, both sides are bad!"

I am writing scripts. The next book is hard because the characters have to wrestle with a political Gordian Knot of trying to find popular support while wrestling with ideological Purity Culture, which is... way realer and more philosophical than I ever expected to get, but...

It really makes me want to get to a place where I can pull Errant out of hiatus. I think the comic's message of working together through political differences and past baggage to beat an authoritarian who wants everyone to feel hopeless because he already "won" continues to be timely.

I guess it's on my mind seeing all the protests around the world that use One Piece imagery. Comics can be very powerful pieces of visual communication, and maybe the ones that fly under the radar because they're not explicitly *about* politics can have surprising impact.

I'm still amused that I made a comic about magical knights and accidentally predicted, "animal-themed costume becoming figurehead of a protest movement against an authoritarian using the slogan 'No Kings'." about 5 years before it actually happened. 😅

Yeah I think you nailed it. The theme of Hades 1 was "blood" which is supported by the colour palette, the zones all being connected by an arterial river and the family connection storyline, and the theme of 2 should have just been "time", but they muddled it by trying to do too much.

Wishing US friends a powerful and safe No Kings Day 2: Dethrone With A Vengeance! ❤️🤍💙🐸

I definitely think the originally planned ending was something different. My guess was "Melinoe traps herself and ALL the gods in an eternal dream/nightmare timeloop, accidentally creating the golden age prometheus foresaw where gods are no longer involved in the mortal world."

It's like the opposite of true the ending of Undertale, which is like, "Yes! You saved us all! You broke us out of the cycle! You changed everything for the better! ... now you can never play this game again because it'd undo it all. Sorry!"

It has the trappings and tone of a happy ending, but the ultimate message is that Mel has no power to change anyone's mind or achieve anything beyond maintaining a sub par status quo until things beyond her control make her irrelevant.

Having been playing Hades 2 since the playtest launched, I'm still kind of processing how I feel about it finally having the ending plugged in and it turns out it's kind of bad and weirdly nihilistic?

Omg they put us next to a bunch of our queer comics friends this is gonna be so much fun!!! 🥰

Wow I'm glad I saw a random YouTube video that I can just opt in for windows 10 security updates for free for another full year (anyone in the UK and EU can do this btw, it's in your settings). I was about to actually install Linux in desperation! 🤣

There is something to be said for tired brain not overthinking and having infinite patience for tedious application of drybrushing 😆

Lousy goddamn Skaven with their bloody excellent fine detail, varied textures and opportunities for interesting weathering, grr...

One Skaven clanrat champion from Warhammer Age of Sigmar, painted to annoyingly high standard.

When you paint a random spare Skaven for the "rattober" meme and to test a red paint while you have a cold and it comes out as one of the best minis you ever painted. 😠

Oh yeah that's a tough fight. You need to dodge-strike a lot and focus down the minotaur before lowering theseus to 50% hp. Get upgrades that will help damage output, like the ones that increase damage on targets with casts in, and also targets stuff status effects, and also hitting from behind.

It's Hades 2 day! Aaaa! Can't wait for 5pm! I've been loving the prerelease and I'm so excited to see all the plot stuff slotted in!

sketchy drawing of myself at a cash register, gesturing tiredly.

I really tried to avoid this, but I'm in need of help. I'm a year and a half out of full time work, and my retail gig alone can't keep me afloat. My October expenses are going to be much higher than normal.

I'm offering sketch comms over on my ko-fi for donations. thank you
ko-fi.com/hanoodles

The Mel and Frinos one is legit one of my favourite sticker designs I've drawn. Loved playing the prerelease and drawing Jen Zee's amazing character designs! So hype for tomorrow!!!

YouTube video by J. Draper How We Beat The Fascists Last Time: The London History Show

The new J Draper vid is a must watch for UK peeps.
youtu.be/XeHviTKEqSo?...

Mache chest with foam clay being applied around foil shape for the tongue.

Interior painted and with gems added, and fimo teeth stuck on.

Googly eyes added and cardboard jaw holders to keep the mimic's mouth open.

Some work in progress pics...

A box crafted to look like a mimic monster, filled with packs of dice.

Another view of the mimic box.

I needed some way to protect the dice on our Redbrick Market stall from occasional ceiling drips. A mache chest from hobbycraft, some bohs foam clay, acrylic paint, fimo, adhesive "gems" and varnish later...

Thank you!